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But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Baron de Montesquieu

Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles

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